execute perl scripts outside cgi-bin 1

[fortytwo]

I have a couple of sites that I want to run mainly perl scripts, but also a very few plain .html files. I currently have a ScriptAlias set up so .pl scripts will execute within the cgi-bin directory, but as so many of the pages of the sites are perl I would like perl scripts to be executed whereever they are, eg:

http://somedomain.com/index.pl

I have seen this done on

http://slashdot.org

but have been unable to work out how this works. Can anyone give me any pointers to getting this working? I could just make .pl files execute as .cgi files I guess but is there a more elegant solution?

Thanks
Will.
fortytwo
will@hellacool.co.uk

 

[danielhozac]

Add these lines to your httpd.conf

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

and in the Directory configuration for your htdocs directory

Options ... ExecCGI

Just add ExecCGI to the current line. //Daniel